D e l e c ta b l e a c t i v i t i e s
and game s featuring
Miss Petitfour
and her cats
Meet Miss Petitfour! She loves baking and making and
dancing with her cats, but most of all she loves to fly
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Create your own purrfect cat profile
Your Shyness believes she is descended
from royalty. She wears a lace collar and
has silky fur, bright as a gold coin.
Minky, the littlest cat, looks as if she
stepped in snow when she was a kitten
and the snow never melted. She is all
black except for her white paws and the
spots on her head and tail, where the
snow didn’t melt either.
Clasby wears a bobble hat,
knitted for him for his fifth birthday.
He loves to draw and paint.
Make your own Miss Petitfour’s cat!
Name: Description: Meet Miss Petitfour! She loves baking and making and
dancing with her cats, but most of all she loves to fly
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Miss Petitfour’s cat pairs
Ask an adult to help you cut out these cards
Shuffle the cards and deal them out face-down on the table
Turn over two cards. If they match, remove the cards from the table and keep them in your ‘win’ pile. If
Repeat until all the cards are matched up!
This game is fun to play on your own or taking it in turn with friends
they don’t match, turn them back over and try to remember where they are for next time
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Minky
Minky
Purrsia
Purrsia
Misty
Misty
Taffy
Taffy
More cards on the next page!
Meet Miss Petitfour! She loves baking and making and
dancing with her cats, but most of all she loves to fly
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Miss Petitfour’s cat pairs
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Pirate
Pirate
Hemdela
Hemdela
Mustard
Mustard
Earring
Earring
Grigorovitch
Grigorovitch
Captain Captain
Captain Captain
More cards on the next page!
Meet Miss Petitfour! She loves baking and making and
dancing with her cats, but most of all she loves to fly
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Miss Petitfour’s cat pairs
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Captain Clothespin
Captain Clothespin
Your Shyness
Your Shyness
Sizzles
Sizzles
Moutarde
Moutarde
Clasby
Clasby
Captain Catkin
Captain Catkin
Meet Miss Petitfour! She loves baking and making and
dancing with her cats, but most of all she loves to fly
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Miss Petitfour’s cake memory game
Everyone likes thinking about cakes – Miss Petitfour most of all! Gather a group of three or
more people and play this fun cake-filled memory game.
Sit in a circle and choose a person to start the game
The first person completes the following sentence: ‘I went to Miss Petitfour’s picnic and I ate …’
For example, ‘I went to Miss Petitfour’s picnic and I ate a currant toast squishy with butter.’
The second person then repeats that sentence and adds on another cake.
For example, ‘I went to Miss Petitfour’s picnic and I ate a currant toast squishy
with butter and a Bramley apple pie.’
veryone takes it in turns to add another cake, and another, until someone can’t
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remember any more. That person then drops out of the game.
Repeat until you have a winner!
Meet Miss Petitfour! She loves baking and making and
dancing with her cats, but most of all she loves to fly
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Miss Petitfour’s favourite words
The Adventures of Miss Petitfour is full of fascinating words – keep your own
list of favourite words and their meanings as you come across them!
meteorological circumstances
debonair
eccentricity
festooning
the weather
charming
a quirky thing we like to do just because
cleverly decorating things
Meet Miss Petitfour! She loves baking and making and
dancing with her cats, but most of all she loves to fly
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Books too silly ever to be written
‘Miss Petitfour and Mrs. Collarwaller spent many enjoyable hours drinking tea together in the bookshop and playing a
game they were both extremely fond of: thinking up titles for books too silly ever to be written, such as Beware, I’m Going
to Rob you Any Minute, or Warning: The Last Page Is Missing, or This Book is a Waste of Time, or How to Care
for the Fish in Your Shoe, or Don’t Bother, all the Pages are Stuck Together, or I Think I’m Asleep.’
Think of your own titles for books too silly ever to be written – the sillier the better!
Meet Miss Petitfour! She loves baking and making and
dancing with her cats, but most of all she loves to fly
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Write your own Miss Petitfour adventure
‘Sometimes all you must do is reach out your
hand for something wonderful to happen.’
Write a short story using this sentence as a starting point!
Try using some of the story words from the book:
THEN ONE DAY, MEANWHILE,
JUST THEN, UNFORTUNATELY …
Meet Miss Petitfour! She loves baking and making and
dancing with her cats, but most of all she loves to fly
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